After the cavalry of the Chung Ling Army entered the city, there was almost no suspense about the ensuing battle. The cavalry led by Ma Wu and Yao Qi drove straight in, from the west city to the east city, which was equivalent to directly penetrating Huyang City.
The defenders of the East City still wanted to resist the cavalry coming from inside the city on the top of the city. But Ma Wu took the lead, rode along the steps of the city wall, and charged straight up.
When Ma Wu immediately stood on the top of the city with his sword drawn, the Chung Ling army attacking the city outside immediately became excited. Deng Yu's troops were attacking the city here. Originally, most of the soldiers were new recruits, and they did not have the will to fight.
They were not firm, but when they saw Ma Wu killing Ma Wu on the top of the city, the morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted. As if they had been given a shot of blood, they climbed up the ladder crazily to the top of the city.
The officers and soldiers stationed in Dongcheng could no longer resist. With enemies both inside and outside, they had no choice but to surrender.
The successive losses of Xicheng and Dongcheng also dealt a heavy blow to Nancheng, which had the largest number of troops.
The county soldiers guarding Nancheng had to fight against the Chung Ling Army outside the city while also being distracted by checking the situation inside the city. They were unable to concentrate on fighting, and the situation in Nancheng suddenly became precarious.
Fortunately, Huyang's county magistrate Lian Feng and county captain Guo Deng are both here in Nancheng, and they can play a role in stabilizing the morale of the military to a large extent.
However, when a large number of Chongling troops came over from the city, the county soldiers on top of the city were completely thrown into chaos.
Some people stood stupidly on the top of the city, staring at the enemy soldiers coming from inside the city, dumbfounded. Some people ran down the city in panic, not knowing whether they were going to fight or escape for their lives.
Guo Deng held his sword and shouted to the soldiers around him: "Don't mess up! Don't mess around!" But no one listened to him at all. The county soldiers on the top of the city fled in all directions, crowding and pushing each other, and it became a mess.
A pot of porridge.
This situation made Guo Deng's eyes turn red. He roared angrily and swung his sword to knock down a soldier who was running away from him to the ground.
Seeing this, the nearby county soldiers were startled. People looked at Guo Deng blankly and forgot to run for a moment.
Guo Deng yelled: "Anyone who escapes from battle will be killed without mercy! No one is allowed to run! No one is allowed to run!" He held a bloody sword and glared at the people around him with bloodshot eyes.
The county soldiers around him were indeed intimidated by Guo Deng, but with such a long Nancheng wall, how could Guo Deng be able to intimidate all the county soldiers with only one person?
In other places, there were still a large number of county soldiers running down the city wall and surrendering to the Chongling Army. As they watched, the number of soldiers on the city wall became less and less, from three thousand to two thousand, and from two thousand to two thousand.
Less than a thousand, Lian Feng realized that the situation was over. He couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh. As the saying goes, do your best and obey fate. He really tried his best, but even though he tried his best, he still couldn't hold Huyang. He
Nothing can be done.
Lian Feng seemed to have aged more than ten years all of a sudden. He staggered up to Guo Deng, grabbed his sword-holding arm, and said, "Gong Xiao, our army has been defeated in this battle, there is no need to continue fighting!"
Guo Deng looked at Lian Feng in disbelief and said urgently: "Magistrate Lian, our army has not been defeated yet, our brothers can still fight!"
He was originally a man of the world, from the Baisong sect. He worked hard to achieve the position of Huyang County Captain. Now he is asked to surrender and let him waste most of his life's efforts and hard work. He
How can you be willing to do so?
"Fight again?" Lian Feng almost laughed. He looked around and saw that only the four or five hundred people around him were left in his army. But looking at other places, there were Chung Ling troops inside and outside the city, and they were so dark.
, so dense that I can’t even count them.
"Gongxiao, forget it, since we have been defeated, let's leave a way for our brothers to survive!" As he spoke, Lian Feng looked around and said feebly: "Everyone put down their weapons and rebel against Chongling...surrender to the Chongling army.
Bar!"
Lian Feng is different from Guo Deng. He is a scholar and a Confucian scholar, and he has a compassionate heart in his heart.
He knew very well that if he surrendered now, others might survive, but he and Guo Deng would definitely not get better. The most likely possibility would be to be sentenced to death by the rebels.
But it is better to just kill the two of them than to have so many county soldier brothers die with them. Either way, one of them will die, so one more person can be saved.
After hearing Lian Feng's words, the surrounding officers and soldiers lowered their heads one after another. One soldier slowly squatted down and gently placed the spear in his hand on the ground. Before he could stand up, Guo Deng's sword had already slashed.
to his neck.
Click! With a crisp sound, the neck of the soldier who lowered his spear shortened in response, and his head rolled to the ground. Guo Deng suddenly made a killing move, which shocked Lian Feng. He stared at him with wide eyes and dumbfounded.
Guo Deng asked in shock: "Gong Xiao, what are you doing?"
Guo Deng stared with blood-red eyes, looked around at the people around him fiercely, and said through gritted teeth: "No one is allowed to put down their weapons! No one is allowed to surrender to the rebels!"
As he spoke, he looked at Lian Feng and said: "Magistrate Lian, as officials of the imperial court, how can we surrender to the rebels? Now that Huyang's survival is at stake, we should fight the rebels to the end!"
Lian Feng shook his head and said, "If we continue to fight, it will only increase casualties. Gongxiao, we have already lost this battle!" As he spoke, he shook his head at Guo Deng and walked toward the steps of the city wall.
The soldiers standing in front of him retreated to both sides and opened a passage. Lian Feng had only walked five or six steps away when he suddenly heard a pop and his body suddenly stiffened, and the officers and soldiers around him did not realize it.
Open your mouth wide.
Lian Feng lowered his head slowly and saw a bloody sword tip protruding from his chest. He turned around and saw that the man standing behind him, holding the hilt of the sword, was Guo Deng.
Sha! Guo Deng fiercely pulled out the sword from Lian Feng's body. The latter couldn't stand and fell to the ground. His body only twitched a few times and then stopped moving.
Without even looking at the corpses on the ground, Guo Deng shouted at the surrounding county soldiers: "No matter who it is, anyone who escapes from the battlefield and surrenders to the enemy will be killed without mercy!"
The surrounding county soldiers looked at Lian Feng's body and then at Guo Deng, who had fallen into a state of madness. They grinned secretly and did not even dare to breathe.
Guo Deng gasped and shouted: "Everyone pick up your weapons and follow me to kill the enemy!" As he spoke, he picked up his sword and rushed towards the Chung Ling army who was attacking the city.
All the county soldiers present could see that Guo Deng had lost his mind at this time and was completely crazy. If he followed such a madman to fight, he would probably not survive in the end.
The county soldiers who were far away from Guo Deng quietly put down their weapons, then saw the opportunity, turned around and ran away.
There were four to five hundred county soldiers left just now. In just a moment, there were only about a hundred left.
Guo Deng, who was rushing towards the Chung Ling Army, heard something was wrong behind him. He looked back and saw the county soldiers fleeing, and his nose almost became angry.
Just as he was about to turn back to chase the deserters, someone suddenly shouted loudly from below the city: "Guo Deng, Huyang City has been destroyed and you have no way out. How long will you continue to resist?"
The words coming from below the city shocked Guo Deng. He stopped, walked to the edge of the city wall, lowered his head and looked into the city.
Inside the city wall, there were both cavalry and infantry of the Choling Army. Among the crowd, there was a young man standing with his hands behind his back, looking up at him with a half-smile.
Guo Deng took a deep breath and asked loudly: "Who are you?"
"Liu Xiu!"
Hearing the word "Liu Xiu", Guo Deng's eyes became even redder. He had done a good job as a county captain in Huyang. If it hadn't been for the Chung Ling Army, if it hadn't been for Liu Xiu, how could he have ended up in this situation?!
Without thinking, he suddenly raised his hand, and heard two whooshing sounds, and two sleeve arrows flew out from his sleeves, aiming straight for Liu Xiu in the crowd.
Guo Deng and Liu Xiu, one was above the city and the other was below the city. The distance between them could not be said to be far, but they were not very close either. Seeing the other's two sleeve arrows shooting at him, Liu Xiu did not panic.
There was no need for him to block, but a knife came down from the side, knocking the two sleeve arrows that flew in front of Liu Xiu to the ground.
Gai Yan's knife.
Seeing that Guo Deng was about to die and used a hidden weapon on Liu Xiu, Ma Wu was furious and shouted: "Kill——"
Following his shouts, the surrounding cavalry raised their crossbows and fired volleys at Guo Deng on the top of the city.
Guo Deng reacted quickly, hurriedly lowered his head, and quickly retreated into the city wall. However, the county soldiers standing next to him were all unlucky. The sound of arrows was heard constantly. In just an instant, there were more than a dozen county soldiers.
Some were struck by arrows and fell to the ground, or some fell down the city wall.
As soon as the cavalry in the city fired arrows, the soldiers of the Chongling army who had attacked the city immediately launched an attack on Guo Deng.
The more than a hundred county soldiers who were with Guo Deng looked at the Chung Ling Army approaching from both sides. They had no fighting spirit and threw away their weapons one after another and ran away with their heads in their hands.
Guo Deng roared angrily and charged towards the Chung Ling Army attacking from the left with his sword. Guo Deng's skill was not weak. Even if he could not reach the level of a swordsman, he was not far behind, but the current situation just confirmed it.
"Two fists are hard to beat with four hands, and a good tiger cannot fight against many wolves."
Fighting into the crowd of Chung Ling Army, Guo Deng killed more than ten soldiers, but he was also hit by several swords and suffered three or four bloody wounds.
Feeling that there were too many enemy troops here and it was impossible to kill them all, Guo Deng broke out from the crowd and rushed towards the Chongling Army on the right.
But the situation here is the same. He cut down one person, and immediately two more people came up. The strength of the Chung Ling Army seemed to be endless.
Seeing Guo Deng being surrounded by his own soldiers, Liu Xiu picked up a sleeve arrow from the ground and played with it for a moment. He raised his head and shouted to the soldiers on the top of the city: "Leave alive!"
His words temporarily saved Guo Deng's life. When Guo Deng was dragged out from the crowd by two soldiers, he was almost a bloody man, with holes all over his body, and his clothes were dyed
Bloody red.
Ma Wu glanced at Guo Deng, who had lost consciousness, and said angrily to Liu Xiu: "My lord, this thief is stubborn and does not know whether to live or die. Why should we keep him?"
Liu Xiu shook the sleeve arrow in his hand and said: "This sleeve arrow is the same as the sleeve arrow fired by the person who escaped!"
It can be seen from this that the man in the world who calls himself Lu Ning must be related to Guo Deng. It is very likely that the two of them are from the same school.
To capture Guo Deng alive, Liu Xiu planned to use him to find out the escaped Lü Ning. Lü Ning's skills were not simple, and with such an enemy hiding in the dark, Liu Xiu felt that he was a hidden danger.
